Akshay Patra Foundation

Since its inception in June 2000, Akshaya Patra Foundation endeavors hard to eliminate classroom hunger by offering Mid-day Meal schemes in the government schools and government-aided schools. Located in Bengaluru, Karnataka it serves mouthwatering mid-day meals to 1,500 children in a day. After partnering for several years with the Government of India, philanthropic donors, and various State Government, the organization today turns out to be the world’s largest Mid-Day Meal Programme. Good management, innovative technology, and smart engineering to deliver nutritious and providing hygienic school meals are its key differentiators.

• To eliminate classroom hunger and attract more children to schools.
• Provide as much free mid-day meals as possible with its presence in 40 kitchens across 12 states in India.
• Improving the nutritional status of children in classes I-V in Government, Local Body and Government aided schools, and EGS and AIE centers.
• During summer vacation, they also provide support to children of primary stage in drought-affected areas.
• They aim to address two Sustainable Development Goals: Zero Hunger and Quality Education.

• Won CSR times Award & CSR health impact Award for the year 2018
• 24th Annual Communicator Award of Excellence 2018
• Social Entrepreneur of the year 2017 Finalist
• Receives National Award for Child Welfare, 2016

Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Akshaya Patra Foundation is a non-profit organization that aims to eliminate classroom hunger by offering Mid-Day Meal Scheme in the government schools and government-aided schools. It has been more than a decade since the organization provides fresh and nutritious meals to children on every single school day. Till now they have been serving 1.7 million children from 14,702 schools across 12 states in India.

Akshaya Patra also aims at countering malnutrition and supporting the right to education of socio-economically disadvantaged children. The government of India and various State Governments, persistent support from corporates, individual donors, and such other helping hands have made the program a smooth sail.

In 2003, when the Ministry of Human Resource Development- Department of School Health and Education finally extended their support to the initiative, the organization was already found reaching out to 23,000 children. In the year 2007, the Bangalore based organization decided to commence its activities in Gujarat, and the inauguration was done by Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Narendra Modi.

• Anganwadi feeding
• Disaster relief
• Feeding expecting and lactating mothers
• Feeding programmes in old-age homes
• Feeding programmes in special schools
• Feeding runaway children
• Feeding the homeless
• Subsidized lunch for the economically disadvantaged